New applications of the renormalization group method in physics: A brief introduction

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1946, 2011, Pages 2602-2611

  Meurice, Y ^a   Perry, R ^b   Tsai, S W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal symmetry; Critical exponents; Critical phenomena; Effective interactions; Phase transitions; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL SYMMETRY; CRITICAL EXPONENT; CRITICAL PHENOMENON; EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 79959982638     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0117     Document Type: Review

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